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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

ABNER THOMAS, OF ULYSSES, NEW YORK.

Liam Patent No. 74,257, dated notary 11, 1868.

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Be it knownthat I, ABNER. THOMAS, of the town of Ulysses, Tompkins county, New York, have invented an Improved Mechanism or Device for Packing, Preserving, and Transporting Eggs; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exaotdeseription thereof, reference being bad to the annexcddrawings, and the letters thereon.

My object is to make a box that shall be packed and unpacked easily, preserve and keep well the eggs, and transport them safely, with especial reference to those who send eggs to market, the box and its internal parts being usually returned to the shipper or sender of the eggs.

For this purpose I make my device of several parts first, of a suitable outside box; second, in this box I place any desirable or convenient number of shelves, made adjustable one over the other; the upper, being made fast-by the box-cover, holds the others in place; third, to those shelves or partitions I attach coils of wire, so

made as to embrace the eggs and hold them, be elastic, and transport them without breakage, the desigu being so to enclose each egg in its separate coil, that it shall be rasped and be carried independently .of every other egg, or nearly. so fourth, I arrange these coils closely, and by their upper parts, by a mutual contact, I, when desirable, steady and make them support each other; fit'th, to the under side of each shelf or partition I attach cloth or padded cushions, which act in two ways for the security of the eggsfirst, by a stcadying pressure on the tops of the coils,.and, second, to receive the direct jar or pressure of the eggs in case of violence to the box, turning over in part or wholly, or other contingency; sixth, I fasten two or morc'cleats or strips of wood to the shelves, for the purpose of keeping the shelves or partitions a suitable distance apart, and to insure the proper relation of the coils, padding, and otherparts of my mechanism. The drawing shows this, and is- Figure 1, a perpendiculaisection of my box, with the shelves, coils, and other parts thereof.

In it, A A are the sides and bottom of the box, and B the cover that locksand holds in place the shelves or partitions C G, and D Dave the cleats that hold the shelves or partitions apart, and E E are the pads, over and holding the eggs G in the elastic coils H H, the whole being, as already stated, arranged as to thcnumbcr ,of coils, shelves, and hence of the number of eggs packed, kept, or transported, as desirable. The wire of the coils is fixed at the base of each, I, into or to the partition 0, independently of every other, save at the top.

The uses of my invention are apparent to those skilled in the art to which it appcrtains.

Claims. 1. The arrangement of coils of wire, so made as to embrace each egg separately, and the fixing the coils of wire, at close intervals to each other, to shelves or partitions, so as virtually to be as described.

2. The combination, with, the said coils of wire and shelves or partitions, of cloth, felt, or other padding, on the sides of the shelve next the mouths of the coils of wire, as described.

3. The combination of the box or case A, the shelves G, the coils H, the padding E, and cover 13, as described.

- ABNER THOMAS. Witnesses:

F. B. J onnson,

CHAS. Sun's. 

